Effect of different factors on treatment of oily wastewater by TiO2/Al2O3-PVDF ultrafiltration membrane

An ultrafiltration membrane developed by our research group was applied to treat simulated emulsified oil wastewater. ATR-FTIR, SEM, TEM, and Zeta potential analyzes demonstrated that the modified ultrafiltration membrane (MM) has excellent stability and anti-fouling capacity than origin membrane (OM), which possesses a pure water flux of 260 L·m-2·h-1 and oil/water (o/w) rejection of 98.5 ± 0.33%. Inorganic salt CaCl2 has more considerable influence than MgSO4 and NaCl under the same mass concentration in the two membranes UF process. Along with concentration increasing, flux sharply reduces; meanwhile, the rejection has an opposite trend. Moreover, permeation flux has a maximum value, and the rejection also gets its optimal state under neutral conditions during the pH value of 2-12. The membrane also exhibits excellent anti-fouling performance and anti- o/w adsorption properties with an adsorption rate below 0.8% compared with OM, which has an adsorption rate of nearly 2.1%, respectively. A kind of new UF membrane developed by our research group was applied to treat simulated o/w. ATR-FTIR, SEM, TEM, and Zeta potential analyzes demonstrated that PVDF-Al2O3/TiO2 material has excellent stability and anti-fouling capacity. CaCl2 has the greatest influence than MgSO4 and NaCl under the same mass concentration. Moreover, permeation flux has maximum value and the rejection also gets its optimal state under neutral conditions during pH 2-12. The membrane also exhibits excellent anti-fouling performance and anti-O/W adsorption properties with adsorption rate below 0.8% compared with OM which has an adsorption rate nearly 2.1%, respectively.